A BUSY FAMILY.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2135, 28 December 1880, Page 3

A BUSY FAMILY.

A case of assault and battery, in which farmers’ sons were plaintiff and defendant respectively, was on trial in Justice Alley yesterday, and the plaintiff’s lawyer was very anxious to make out that the defendant’s family must have seen the fight which took place just outside the kitchen door. The defendant’s mother being on the stand the lawyer began : “ Well, where you when the first blow was struck?’’

“ Down cellar skimming milk and tying cloths over my preserve jars,” she replied. “ Where was your husband ?” “He was in the barn mending the harness and greasing the waggon.” “ Where was your daughter Sarah ?” “ Sarah was in the north bedroom changing the pillow cases on the spare bed.” “And where was Jane ?” “Jane ? She had run over to a neighbor’s to borrow some coffee and » nutmeg.” “ Lot’s see ! Haven’t you a sister living with you ?” “ Yes, air. She was sowing carpet rags upstairs.”

“Ah ! she waa ? Vou have a younger son named Charles, haven’t yon ?” “ Yes, s'r, and he was salting the sheep across the rood.” “Just so. 'on are a very busy family, I see. I suppose oven the dog wvi very busy just at this particular moment ?*' “ Yes, sir, he was. Old Bose was down at the gate looking towardu X>etmit forone horso lawyers!” That closed the testimony and settled him more them a foot.